{"id":2092,"date":"2013-02-03T20:48:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T19:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tostevin.net\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2013-02-05T00:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T23:30:12","slug":"shouldve-gone-to-specsavers-red-dragon-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/?p=2092","title":{"rendered":"Should&#8217;ve gone to Specsavers &#8230; Red Dragon Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:justify;\">\n<b>Fortunately WE DID !<\/b> &#8230;. And what a spectacular evening it was.<\/p>\n<p>The 2013 Red Dragon Ball was Specsavers bi-annual ball for the 500+ Guernsey staff, plus partners. In all there were 800 people at the Welsh themed ball. We sat down to a scrumptious meal including Welsh leek Caerphilly cheese and succulent Welsh lamb. There was entertainment from the &#8220;Welsh Boys Aloud&#8221;, local male voice choir, followed up with surprise guests singer Katherine Jenkins and comedian Rob Brydon.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that I&#8217;m not a huge fan of the operatic style of singing but I&#8217;m thinking again after hearing Katherine Jenkins truly sublime voice singing both classical and popular songs. The whole audience was enraptured by her voice, she was a joy to listen to. <\/p>\n<p>Rob Brydon was his usual funny and entertaining self, wittily dealing with a &#8216;lady&#8217; who had clearly imbibed a little too much vino and who had climbed up on stage and proceeded to bear hug him \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>The evening was nicely rounded up in the Red Dragon Night club, complete with podium dancing &#8216;Welsh girls&#8217;.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h2>Katherine Jenkins<\/h2>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eenjm8eUm9E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><\/p>\n<h2>Highlights of the Ball<\/h2>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"550\" height=\"310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wLz0fcJvzlI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Fortunately WE DID !<\/b> &#8230;. And what a spectacular evening it was. The 2013 Red Dragon Ball was Specsavers bi-annual ball for the 500+ Guernsey staff, plus partners. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26Fp9-xK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showmethecode.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}